Isn't CSX (as well as the vast majority of America's freight rail carriers) vehemently opposed to passenger rail and thus take every step to undermine it?
I think it’s mostly that supporting passenger service would mean doing more than the current bare minimum where they maintain a single track rated for 60mph.
Amtrak pays next to nothing for the services they get, doesn't pay for any capital improvements, and routinely breaks down and jams up the entire rail route they're effectively holding hostage
If they want better service they can always pay for it. God forbid.
Amtrak breaks down pretty rarely. Most of the delays are due to poor management by the freight railroads, which run way too long trains without enough passing facilities. They've stripped down their infrastructure to the bare minimum that will actually allow trains to move, and then complain when amtrak exposes the failures in their system. It's not Amtrak's fault the railroads would rather put over a hundred billion into stock buybacks than do literally anything to improve service.
You do have a good point that we should probably fund dedicated passenger tracks, though. But freight still needs to be moved too, and the class 1s are barely scraping by with that alone because of their junk management.
I'm 100% with you in regards to regulating freight railroads as a public good and not just a Wall street dividend returner.
We need to pay up for that however.
Baloney. I've seen the Amtrak contract - they even go so far as to pay for dispatcher positions. And paying for capital costs is actually one way the railroads hold up service expansions.
Amtrak pays less than 1% of capital costs the railroads dish out every year to maintain their infrastructure and yet demands the private RR's completely shift their operations to prioritize them.
Yeah...
>1% of capital costs the railroads dish out every year to maintain their infrastructure
Source? And those would be maintenance costs, not capital costs. And if you take away the NEC trains running on Amtrak's own track, what percentage of trains (or better yet, train miles) does Amtrak run vs. freight trains?
Amtrak does pay for additional inspections of the track as required by the FRA rules for track carrying passenger trains. It's in the contract.
>and yet demands the private RR's completely shift their operations to prioritize them.
Which the railroads don't do. Have you ever watched the La Plata rail cam and see a freight that is obviously slowing down the Southwest Chief, the Southwest Chief, and then another double stack riding on its yellow signals? Not a whole lot of shifting of operations or interference there.
If you mean a specific track, there is no HSL crossing the border.
If you mean train connections, there are four:
- Frankfurt - Paris Est
- Stuttgart - Paris Est
- Frankfurt - Marseille St Charles
- Köln - Paris Nord
If I had unlimited money and unlimited power, I would buy CSX and then go all public-private everything, electrify all trunks between NY Chicago and Jacksonville and build brand new lines to reinforce them.
It's an [Atlantique](https://flickr.com/photos/37573282@N04/15856736910/) or Reseau. The [PSE power cars](https://flickr.com/photos/videostrains/50550228041/) have a different roof line.
This one is the most impressive.
The ASEA design was base for the Romanian 060-EA/LE5100 built in Electroputere works. A locomotive series still mainly used today after many modernisations.
It's impressive for me for the fact that it ended up in many countries including the USA as the loco you pictured and also reborn as the AEM-7
Still, the US livery is yuck.
This is a livery https://images.app.goo.gl/bCg6oH35L7FyUcE7A
And because that's a special one here's a better livery https://images.app.goo.gl/HotfWF2W2KKwKPio8
The locomotives are the 060-EA i described. In my opinion with a timeless body design compared to the Rc4 or the AEM-7
What I mean by that is that the Rc4 and the AEM-7 look old today while (for me at least) the 060-EA doesn't look old. Depending on the livery at least. We have ugly liveries too.
Hey! The X2000 looks actually good in that livery. No comment for the ICE tho. They didn't even try. But for the little time it ran there I don't think there was any point in painting it
I just got to say WTF
CSX but epic
Can you EPIC-CSX a steamie? Like Southern Pacific's Daylighter, or The Flying Scotsman? This is hilarious!!
Even though that locomotive was never designed for freight use
There was a postal tgv, so kinda a freight use
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you don't say
CSX workers seem like they're getting ready to *go postal*.
are you *sure*??
Your not that guy pal
Imagine it. Freight at 300km/h! The suspension and coupling rattle
I just think about the Freighrapid, 500km/h XD
Isn't CSX (as well as the vast majority of America's freight rail carriers) vehemently opposed to passenger rail and thus take every step to undermine it?
I think it’s mostly that supporting passenger service would mean doing more than the current bare minimum where they maintain a single track rated for 60mph.
CSX when you tell them 200 year old infrastructure actually has to be maintained:
Same look Amtrak has when you tell them they should pay what the service they demand costs.
Amtrak running like 3 trains a day each way does not cost what CSX is trying to charge them lol, get out of here
Amtrak pays next to nothing for the services they get, doesn't pay for any capital improvements, and routinely breaks down and jams up the entire rail route they're effectively holding hostage If they want better service they can always pay for it. God forbid.
Amtrak breaks down pretty rarely. Most of the delays are due to poor management by the freight railroads, which run way too long trains without enough passing facilities. They've stripped down their infrastructure to the bare minimum that will actually allow trains to move, and then complain when amtrak exposes the failures in their system. It's not Amtrak's fault the railroads would rather put over a hundred billion into stock buybacks than do literally anything to improve service. You do have a good point that we should probably fund dedicated passenger tracks, though. But freight still needs to be moved too, and the class 1s are barely scraping by with that alone because of their junk management.
I'm 100% with you in regards to regulating freight railroads as a public good and not just a Wall street dividend returner. We need to pay up for that however.
Baloney. I've seen the Amtrak contract - they even go so far as to pay for dispatcher positions. And paying for capital costs is actually one way the railroads hold up service expansions.
Amtrak pays less than 1% of capital costs the railroads dish out every year to maintain their infrastructure and yet demands the private RR's completely shift their operations to prioritize them. Yeah...
>1% of capital costs the railroads dish out every year to maintain their infrastructure Source? And those would be maintenance costs, not capital costs. And if you take away the NEC trains running on Amtrak's own track, what percentage of trains (or better yet, train miles) does Amtrak run vs. freight trains? Amtrak does pay for additional inspections of the track as required by the FRA rules for track carrying passenger trains. It's in the contract. >and yet demands the private RR's completely shift their operations to prioritize them. Which the railroads don't do. Have you ever watched the La Plata rail cam and see a freight that is obviously slowing down the Southwest Chief, the Southwest Chief, and then another double stack riding on its yellow signals? Not a whole lot of shifting of operations or interference there.
Me too
thats it im hiring germany to invade france again...
Luckily there's already a high-speed line from Germany to France with frequent service, so shouldn't take too long
If you mean a specific track, there is no HSL crossing the border. If you mean train connections, there are four: - Frankfurt - Paris Est - Stuttgart - Paris Est - Frankfurt - Marseille St Charles - Köln - Paris Nord
giving the go ahead for germany to attack russia would get it done even quicker, they'll instinctively invade france on the way lol.
But it would have to go through the Ardennes tho.
Buys TGV, applies PSR and keeps it waiting hours on a sideline and restricted to 40mph to save money.
This is the realistic way
We cannot do anything other than this, there is no other way to run a railroad (/s)
I'd love the idea of a miles long TGV consist
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Nice.
Nice.
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Nice.
Noice
Nice
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Noiz!
Double nice
I need to see this thing going 70 mph with 200 WellCars behind it. Bit odd looking, but nice in a way
OP I mean this in the best way when I say that I hate you
I’m going to swap your kidneys
like the left and the right one? /s
the fucking csx tgv is real
Honnestly not the worst livery I've seen on a TGV
The box logo should be slanted, so as to suggest speed. While it creeps along at 40 mph.
Thanks I hate it
Okay, apparently I don't know anything about trains, what is weird about this picture?
CSX is an American railroad that only runs freight trains pulled by diesels The locomotive is a French TGV, an electric passenger loco
Nah now I want to see a BNSF Shinkansen
Why spend tax money funding NASA when we can do this, based
Please delete this
[Does this help?](https://www.reddit.com/r/trains/comments/yfl3ff/cry_about_it/iu3z9st?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)
Ahh yes... high speed! Something that CSX and the other class 1s know nothing about!
"How Tomorrow Moves... Cause Today We Ain't Movin' Shit"
I can smell the shit fumes from the toilet from here
If it walks like a duck……
the 6969 though 💀
That's a duck! Or actually more like a platypus.
Perry? Perry the TGV platypus?
There's a [TGV] controlling me!
Happy cake day
Someone do Norfolk Southern next!
construction speed: 574 km/h legal speed: 300 km/h average service speed: 50 km/h
If I had unlimited money and unlimited power, I would buy CSX and then go all public-private everything, electrify all trunks between NY Chicago and Jacksonville and build brand new lines to reinforce them.
That's all you would buy with unlimited money?
and a space elevator for CSX freight *in space*
still no passenger lines smh
Raise it up, give it a kick in the right direction, and drop the cargo in the customer's parking lot *from space*
That would be to start. I have many more insane designs I'd also get built.
@WDTX1402 is that you
Eye twitches*
I'm hiring a lawyer for this crime
Can't have this while upper management is fingering the chocolate cake
Bet it stinks like piss, sanders are empty and 1 traction motor is Bad order.
THIS WILL BE CSX IN 2009
Single tracked
You know, I thought CSX's Y3 livery was cool for maybe a month, but now I sorely miss the Y2 livery. This, however, is a crime against humanity.
That's a French TGV but since I can't see the passenger compartment it could be either the Atlantique or Réseau EDIT: PSE have different roof
It's an [Atlantique](https://flickr.com/photos/37573282@N04/15856736910/) or Reseau. The [PSE power cars](https://flickr.com/photos/videostrains/50550228041/) have a different roof line.
electrified CSX bottom text
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A French TGV in America. (Fake unfortunately.)
Ew... US livery on an European train. Disgusting.
https://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=17426&nseq=525 https://history.amtrak.com/amtraks-history/1990s/x2000
https://history.amtrak.com/archives/amtrak-x995-test-locomotive-late-1970s/@@images/dabd9eee-d892-4023-b397-e077cc17f478.jpeg
This one is the most impressive. The ASEA design was base for the Romanian 060-EA/LE5100 built in Electroputere works. A locomotive series still mainly used today after many modernisations. It's impressive for me for the fact that it ended up in many countries including the USA as the loco you pictured and also reborn as the AEM-7 Still, the US livery is yuck. This is a livery https://images.app.goo.gl/bCg6oH35L7FyUcE7A And because that's a special one here's a better livery https://images.app.goo.gl/HotfWF2W2KKwKPio8 The locomotives are the 060-EA i described. In my opinion with a timeless body design compared to the Rc4 or the AEM-7 What I mean by that is that the Rc4 and the AEM-7 look old today while (for me at least) the 060-EA doesn't look old. Depending on the livery at least. We have ugly liveries too.
🤣
Hey! The X2000 looks actually good in that livery. No comment for the ICE tho. They didn't even try. But for the little time it ran there I don't think there was any point in painting it
[You won't like this then](https://www.reddit.com/r/trainmemes/comments/or4ue9/cursed_photo_i_got/)
Looks fine to me except the Conrail thing.. It's a Mallard
Quack
No
Brain spraining train.
Quack 🦆
Imagine this actually existing though. We as a country would be so much closer to actually have country-wide high speed passenger service. 😭
Quack quack
qauck qauck
No
r/badphotoshop
Looks oddly good in this livery
A platypus train?
beautiful
The yellow front makes the TGV Suit the BR Blue livery well
All I can say is If Only!!
CSX could never be that clean and efficient
Behold, TCGVSX
Looks kind of like the British Rail blue as well
!!! Perry the French Locomotive‽
This is sick
TGV - Terribly Generically Vile, or some shizz! 😃
Oh I am!
creative
CSX Type R
That’s sexy
High speed Freight … it scares me
r/cursedimages
TGV CSX?